Combination kitchen utensil



A. AND E. GLUCK.

COMBINATION KITCHEN UTENSIL.

APPLICATION FILED 'FEB- 3, 1920.

1,37 1 ,758. Patented; Mar. 15, 1921.

9 uc /ZEZZ UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

COMBIL TATION KITCHEN UTENSIL.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 15, 1921.

Application filed February 3, 1920. Serial No. 355,908.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, AUeUsr Gum]; and EBIJIA Graven, citizens of the United States, and residents of Neillsville, in the county of Clark and State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements. in Combination Kitchen Utensils; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention refers to rolling pins and has for its object to provide a simple economical and eifective combination rolling pin and cutter for biscuits, cakes or the like.

The arrangement and construction of the combination device is such that the cutter element can be readily removed from the rolling pin when not in use and the rolling pin will then function as under ordinary conditions. When it is desired to utilize the cutter the same can be readily inserted over the rolling pin which forms a core for it and the cutter is securely held against rotation or endwise movement by a suitable clamping means. In order to render the cutter readily removable it is desirable to provide an end cap or disk, which is detachable in such manner that the shell of the cutter can be slipped over the rolling pin body and thereafter the removable cap or disk is locked to it whereby the combination tool forms an integral body.

lVith the above objects in view the in-' vention consists in certain peculiarities of construction and combination of parts as set forth hereinafter in the accompanying drawings and consequently claimed.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 represents an elevation of a rolling pin embodying the features of our invention with parts broken away and parts in section to more clearly show certain details of construction.

Fig. 2 is a cross section of the same, the section being indicated by the line 2-2 of Fig. 1.

Referring by character to the drawings, 1 represents the rolling pin proper, the same being preferably formed from a wooden cylindcr and having attached to its ends axially disposed hand grips 2, which grips are loosely mounted upon screw pins 3 that are embedded into the ends of the rolling pin cylinder as indicated in dotted lines. The cylinder is also provided at its end with reduced collars 4 against which the inner faces of the grips are fitted.

Mounted upon the smooth surface of the rolllng pm cylinder is a metallic cylindrical shell 5, which is snugly fitted to the cylinder 1 and has an open end indicated at whereby the shell may be telescoped over the roll- 111g pin body. The opposite end of the shell is closed by a disk 6, which disk is an integral part of the shell and is provided with a central opening whereby it maybe fitted over one of the end collars 4E.

After the shell has been inserted in place, a detachable end disk 6 is slipped over the opposite collar 4 to form a. closure for the open end at, said disk being similar to the disk 6. i

As best shown in Fig. 1 of the drawings the cutter shell 5 is also provided with two or more intermediate cutting disks 7, which are fast to the shell body and the end disks together with the intermediate disks are also connected by longitudinally disposed cutting blades 8, four of such blades being shown in this exemplification of our invention. The blades are soldered or otherwise connected to the two series of disks as well as the shell whereby they form in conjunction with the disks a series of rectangular pockets.

In order to brace and securely lock the cutting blades to the removable disk 6 we provide said disks with radially extended sets of lugs 9 which are spaced apart to form a kerf or recess into which end edges of the blade extend. The cutting unit as a whole is then secured to the body of the rolling pin cylinder by a tie rod 10, the head of which tie rod engages the outer face of the disk 6 and passes through apertures in the remaining series of disks together with a corresponding aperture in the enddisk 6'. The tie rod is then looked in place by a binder nut, as best shown in Fig. 1, hence the parts are all drawn tightly together by this tie rod and the rolling pin together with the cutter can then be used as a unit.

\Vhile we have shown and described a tie rod for binding the cutting element to the rolling pin, obviously a set of cotter pins may be used in connection with looking the parts together, by inserting the same through openings in the collars 4. In practice under some conditions we may provide the rolling pin with two or more cutter shells wherein the pockets will differ in size or shape without departing from the spirit of our invention and it is also understood that obvious minor changes may be made in the structural features Without departing from the spirit of the invention.

We claim:

In a cylindrical rolling pin having flat end faces and revoluble handles extending therefrom; the combination of a detachable cake and biscuit cutter, comprising a cylindrical shell adapted to be telescopically fitted over the rolling pin, the shell having an unobstructed open end and an integral apertured closure disk at the opposite end, constituting a transverse cutter adapted to be nested against one end face of the rolling pin, a series of like integral cutting disks extending from the shell body, a series of integrally radially disposed blades intersecting the cutting disks, an apertured separable end cutting disk fitted to the other end face of the rolling pin, companion sets of lugs forming kerfs projecting from the inner face of the separable end disk, adapted to be engaged by the end edges of the radial cutting blades, and a tie rod extending through the end closure disk of the shell and the separable end disk thereof, whereby the shell ends frictionally engage the end faces of the aforesaid rolling pin to hold the parts against relative rotation, the tie rod being positioned exteriorly of the shell body.

I In testimony that We claim the foregoing We have hereunto set our hands at Neillsville in the county of Clark and State of Wisconsin.

AUGUST GLUCK. EMMA GLUGK. 

